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Show 1878.] MR. F. MOORE ON THE LITHOSIID.E. 23 TEGULATA PROTUBERANS, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 6.) Female. Upperside pale luteous brown ; fore wing with numerous brown speckles and a dark brown prominent costal spot; hind wing and abdomen pale luteous-yellow. Underside paler; middle of fore wing brownish. Expanse ly2^ inch. Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. GROUP B. A. Hind wing with a recumbent plumose lappet. N I S H A D A , n. g. Male and female. Fore wing somewhat short, broad, costa considerably arched, apex very acute; exterior margin oblique and slightly convex; posterior margin short, in the male convex and fringed to near the base; subcostal vein five-branched, first branch arising at half length of the cell and slightly touching the costal vein, second at one third before end of the cell, third at some distance beyond the cell, fourth bifid at half its length ; cell narrow ; discocellulars very slender, upper short, lower obliquely curved inward; radial starting from lower end of upper discocellular; median vein three-branched, the two upper at nearly half distance beyond end of cell, lower before its end ; submedian vein recurved upwards from the base. Hind wing in the male very short and broad, somewhat quadrate, anterior margin produced upward from the base and folded over onto the underside, and there provided with a long recumbent fan-like plumose covering or appendage1; the hind wing in the female is longer, being of the same length as posterior margin of fore wing, its anterior margin nearly straight, and is without the folded plumose appendage; costal vein following the anterior margin beneath the fold in the male; subcostal vein two-branched, the upper arising near base of the wing ; cell broad ; discocellulars recurved ; median vein straight, two-branched, the branches very close together, lower branch from before end of the cell; submedian straight. Antennae minutely and finely pectinate in male, setose in female. Body slender, extending beyond hind wing. Legs stout, smooth; fore femora thickened ; middle and hind tibiae spurred. Palpi small, porrect, projected slightly beyond the head, pilose beneath, apex small, pointed. NISHADA FLABRIFERA, n. sp. Male and female. Yellowish ochreous, palest in female ; fore wing in male brighter ochreous, and slightly ferruginous at the base; thorax, head, and antennae brownish ochreous. Expanse 1 inch. Calcutta District (Farr). In coll. F. Moore. Allied to the Bornean Lithosia rotundipennis, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vi. p. 104, which species is also probably identical with L. chilomorpha, Snellen Van Voll., Tijd. voor Ent. 1877, p. 67, pl. 5. fig. 1, from Sumatra. Both of these species will come into the genus Nishada. 1 Probably a sound-producing apparatus. |
